Eli5: Why do companies use the products of Oracle to store information, when they can just use spreadsheets like Excel, or make their own spreadsheet software?

Question

I just can’t seem to comprehend how Oracle can be so wealthy off of making a database when it’s theoretically easy for a company to store its own information.

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Excel, Access, etc are fine for small businesses that have a few databases up to a few hundred MB or a GB each, but they don’t operate well at scale. Oracle has built its reputation on being able to house and efficiently run MASSIVE databases… We’re talking in the order of tens or hundreds of millions of cells and many terabytes per instance, with the ability to have hundreds of even thousands of employees working in those databases simultaneously.

Other alternatives just can’t do that.